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“How? I saw you pulling at her mate bond, but I couldn’t see anything else.”
She set the bottle down for a second. “I’d say magic, but that’s not accurate. Remember what I said before? That because of who and what I am, I can see both our plane and the spiritual.”
“Yeah.”
“Comes in handy. If a ghost is being a jerk, I can kick it to the next plane. Physically. But stuff gets a little overwhelming at times. I see everything that exists on top of each other all the time. Looking at Werewolves is mega annoying. You have all your pack ties and mate bonds and links to this Were and that Were. Claudia’s a little easier. She’s just a witch, even if she’s tied to Lucas. Still took me a second to find the tie to Astaroth. It was hiding under her magic. Just think of it like a little tiny string that was wrapped around her soul. I ripped it off of her. Sucker was strong, but no big deal.”
She made it sound like no big deal, but the way she was sweating and drinking water, it wasn’t exactly easy.
“So, you ready for me to do the same?” Samantha asked.
“Yes.” If it’d worked for Claudia, then I was all about it. Samantha was going to be my savior and I’d owe her big time. I had a good feeling about this. “Whenever you’re ready.”
Samantha waved a hand in front of me and then jerked back. “Shit. This is really bad. I can barely see straight. Too many ties. Umm…” She turned to Claudia. “You should leave the circle. I don’t want to be distracted.”
“Can I come in?” Dastien asked. His anxiety beat down hard on me.
“No. You’ll distract me worse than Claudia. Your bond to Tessa is a little overwhelming. If anything I’d have you leave the building, but I doubt you’d go,” she mumbled the last.
I wanted to scream for him not to leave me, but I didn’t need to. “Never.” My mate’s voice was firm, with a hint of wolf.
“I figured.” She narrowed her gaze at Dastien. “I see your wolf coming closer. Don’t go furry on me. Freaks me out.”
I laughed. “And messing with the other realm doesn’t?” B
ecause I was more than a little freaked out by it.
She shrugged. “It all depends on what’s normal to you. For me, this is normal.”
I couldn’t imagine seeing what she did every day. At least when my visions had been at their worst, I was able to put on gloves and it was all good for the most part. From what I could tell, Samantha never got that kind of a break from her abilities.
She waved her hands in the air and a searing pain went through my mate bond, like someone was trying to rip it apart. “Not that one.” My voice was sharp, but it didn’t seem to phase Samantha at all.
“Calm down. Just moving it out of the way.” Her gaze seemed to look through me as she tilted her head. “It’s like Astaroth hooked into your soul. I’m having trouble separating it out. The tie to Claudia was superficial—like I said before, it was just looped around her—but you? It’s in and out and all over the place. I don’t know that I can get the tie out. Not without doing some serious damage.”
No. No. Just no. “I don’t care about the damage. You have to try.” I sounded desperate, which was completely accurate.
She blinked and it was like her vision cleared. “This could be bad. Like so bad it might be dumb to try. I don’t want to damage your soul or mess with all those bonds. And even if I can get a little strand and start pulling this thread out of you, Astaroth will notice. He could be here before I finish. I… You sure you want me to try?”
My stomach sank. I didn’t come this far to give up. “There’s a chance that you can do it?”
“Maybe.”
What do you think? I asked Dastien.
I don’t know.
I squeezed my eyes shut. Fuck. This was dumb, but my desperation and hope that she could somehow fix this was stronger than my fear. “Just try. Please.”
She let out a slow breath. “Okay. Maybe lie down?”
That was easy enough. Whatever she needed, I was going to make it happen. She leaned over me, both hands resting just above my stomach, and closed her eyes.
She swirled her hands, fingers gesturing above my body. Then she stood up and yanked her hands upward, and I gasped. My whole body tingled, like everything had instantly gone to sleep.
She clasped her hands together, knuckles facing away.
The tingling turned to a buzzing so strong, I was worried my teeth might rattle out of their sockets.
